We are directed to dwell in the sukkah for 7 days. Why?
Our 9th grade Jewish Studies class learned the history of the Jewish debate on what the sukkah is all about.
Some famous Jewish commentators say that a sukkah is the "clouds of glory" which followed the Jews in the desert while others say the sukkah is about experiencing God’s presence, similar to going camping and hoping to experience “nature." (According to Jewish mystics, nature can be seen as a “face” of God).
Others argue that it is about the amazing miracle of surviving the harshness of the desert or a lesson about the impermanence of this world; just as the desert was a passageway from Egypt to Israel, so this world is a passage to the future world (Olam Haba).
Everyone can find the meaning that is right for them.
I wish that everybody will take the lesson you learned from the sukkah into your life this year.
Nachshon Carmi
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